This case study provides valuable insights into how Kenya's virtual university has progressed in terms of concept, strategy and practice. It describes and analyses key issues, operational economics and practical difficulties.

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Wyre with contestants for the Samsung Sponsored ZIki Stars music competition. A first year Sociology student emerged top thrashing over three hundred students to earn a slot in the grand finale during the first leg of the Samsung Ziki Stars tour held at Kenyatta University.

When we talk of information and communication technologies in education, ICT4E, we often are focused on putting technology in the hands of students. But appropriate ICT can actually make a more cost effective and immediate impact on educational administration. From the basics of personnel management - how many teachers and students are in a given school - to logistics - where are all the schools and what's in them - to all the other functions that educational systems require to put on a class every school day. Here's just one, eye-opening example of the impact of ICT on education: with an initial investment of $198,000 (the cost of management and administration software), Kenyatta University has realized a financial gain of $4 million a year. How? They can now accurately track school fee payments by students. Before we got the software, the fee collection was about 64% or 65%, which means 35% of students were not paying their fees, or they were paying maybe when they leave. We were losing a lot of revenue. So, with the introduction of the software, you cannot register without paying fees. That alone increased the fee collection to about 90%. That’s a big revenue income. Olive Mugenda, KU Vice Chancellor in The use of ICT at Kenyatta University The next time you are talking with an educator about ICT4E, you may want to point out that ICT can help schools long before students use computers - they can generate revenue and increase school sustainability when applied to the administration of education. .Get ICTworks 3x a week - enter your email address:

A university student
is admitted in hospital after he was thrown out of the window by gunmen who
raided their hostel in Kahawa Wendani area, Nairobi. The thugs attacked the Kenyatta
University students
and robbed them of their valuables.